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Make RubyMate work with MacPorts Ruby

2008-06-18T15:53:00Z

To make TextMate’s RubyMate work with MacPorts (or any other non-default ruby install) just set TM_RUBY environment variable to be the path to your custom ruby interpreter in TextMate’s preferences. Custom environmental variable settings are located under ‘Advanced’->’Shell Variables’ in TM’s prefs.

Fix empty sake tasks

2008-02-10T16:58:00Z

I’ve had a problem with my sake tasks being blank for the past couple days. Since there were a couple comments on err about similar things, I’ll share my fix: gem install -v 2.0.1 ParseTree. That’s it. Turns out my ParseTree install was messed up and to_ruby was not working on the task blocks.

Rails 2.0 is out

2007-12-07T19:32:00Z

Rails 2.0 has been released. Check it.

Using other MySQL Storage Engines

2007-12-03T16:57:00Z

Try

create_table(:suppliers, :options => 'ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8')

if you need to make a table with a different storage engine than default on MySQL. Note that this will bind your migration to MySQL, as it simply appends whatever is in the :options string to the end of the CREATE_TABLE generated by the migration.

RubyInject

2007-11-27T22:49:00Z

RubyInject is a small library from the folks who brought you RubyCocoa. It allows you to inject a ruby interpreter into a Cocoa app and tinker with all its’ internals.

shoulda

2007-09-29T14:49:00Z

I’m trying out shoulda, a testing framework written by the guys over at Thoughtbot.

I can has patch?

2007-09-18T15:00:00Z

I was poking through svn for has_many_polymorphs to see if a bug that I found had been fixed. Lo and behold, it was:

r688 | evanweaver | 2007-08-29 03:49:55 -0400 (Wed, 29 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

fix singularize bug in autoloader (Brandon Dimcheff)

Caboose Sample App

2007-09-10T22:06:00Z

The Caboose sample app comes with user authentication and many other useful features baked in. It’s a great starting place for your new Rails app!

Massive list of Rails development tips from Peepcode

2007-09-07T19:53:00Z

The Peepcode people have published a long list of Rails development tips: Tips!

Railsify

2007-09-07T16:27:00Z

A new Rails plugin repository has been launched: Railsify. Check it out.